The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men’s eyes.
URSULA K. LE GUINFantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.
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The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there .
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What is life without incompatible realities?
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The performance is silent. The readers hear the sounds of the words and the beat of the sentences only in their inner ear. Silent drummers on noiseless drums. An amazing performance in an amazing theater.
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The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?
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And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul.
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Besides, when you say you’re a feminist it annoys the bigots and the old farts and the prissy ladies so much, it’s kind of irresistible.
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You are in the country where you make up the rules, the laws. You are both dictator and obedient populace. It is a country nobody has ever explored before. It is up to you to make the maps, to build the cities.
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There are no right answers to wrong questions.
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Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art – the art of words.
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I don’t think ‘science fiction’ is a very good name for it, but it’s the name that we’ve got. It is different from other kinds of writing, I suppose, so it deserves a name of its own.
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I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.
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A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it… By using words well they strengthen their souls.
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To see that your life is a story while you’re in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.
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The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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